At first glance you seem to be comparing events that have to be witnessed vs database entries that are centralized, heavily audited, and very accurate.
It’s a lot easier to match patterns in a db vs. real life crime.
If that video is accurate does that imply tool use in other mammals is because they weren’t happy? For example: ravens use sticks, does that imply that they will evolve with unhappiness?
Then how come other animals like orcas and dolphins that show signs of a mood didn’t keep evolving their general intelligence?
Kinda hand wavy video but maybe that’s the idea? Not sure.
Are ravens ever happy with what they have? I legit don't know. What I do know is that the innovation of a permanently unsatisfied brain is an incredibly recent fork. So close we don't even separate it from modern humans. So close that you could reasonably argue if its actually biological evolution or if its the principle of natural selection applied on a sociological level instead.
The industrial revolution and the great windfall of wealth that came with it didn't make people happier (to the extent we can measure it). But there is one group that does seem to find happiness: the small pockets of civilization which took a different road, never bothering to switch from hunter-gatherer to farming.
First, thank you for actually discussing this because I’m interested in this topic and appreciate your point of view.
I do not know if any animal is “happy” but this[0] is the paper (and there are quite a few that are similar in nature) that have empirical evidence that “happy chemicals” aren’t only there for happiness.
Another point is that the “happiest” and longest living pockets of civilization are actually farmers[1]. Costa Rica and CA should be discounted as there is a 20 year average age discrepancy between Japan/Italy/Greece(90s) and CA/Costa Rica (70s).
In my opinion, I would say that happiness is evolutionary and it is driven by desire to get better/explore, etc. This fits your thesis but I fork at the notion that it’s a driver. My hunch is that happiness is kinda like candy or weekends — intended in small doses as reward for survival. Since “happy chemicals” are responsible for such a large swath of human bodily functions[2], a high release can have detrimental effects (dopamine is responsible for movement and memory, for example, in addition to motivation).
Basically, I agree with the video that we’re not suppose to be always happy and our search is actually a by product of understanding “happiness”. Kinda how pigs will purposefully knock apples to the ground and eat them a week or two later to get drunk[3].
Emotions in general are hard to define, let alone pin to a particular chemical. If I were wearing my contrarian cap I would question the extrapolation from "happiness correlates" in humans to other animals.
Sadly, that's about all the time for in depth effort posting I have today. Maybe if I had more time I'd be happy...
Congress folk are highly likely to have an investment professional managing their money, who usually outperform “the market” (whatever that means, considering most don’t benchmark S&P for obvious reasons).
What I really don’t get is that most insider trades make less than 70k before going to jail and even with inside information, a large percentage of insider trades don’t make money (but you still go to jail). Yet folks think it’s some kind of cheat code.
Are you under the impression that it is illegal for members of Congress to engage in insider trading, so therefore the absence of prosecution proves it is not a frequent occurrence?
SEC, that prosecutes insider trading, is a civil regulatory body and cannot send people to jail, which the article mentions for some odd reason. And I’d put the odds at 100:1 that any prosecutor in the SEC would love to go after a Congress person to further their career.
Lastly, not sure most are aware, insider trading is usually spotted by SECs internal AI/algo that is connected to all brokers, clearing houses, etc. they are very good at finding folks.
Edit: another thing that is missing from this discussion is the SEC awards a portion of the proceeds to the whistleblower of any case. I just can’t believe no one ratted out a Congress member for retirement money and all members are security masterminds.
My guess? They use an agency to service their website and made the license in PDF so the org can change it without incurring additional cost of an update.
Orgs place a lot of value on control. A TXT, even if better, would be a hard sell. Especially in a 501(c), where optics matter and they are targeting a demographic that usually prefers PDFs.
Festool bought Shapr and their TS saw sounds like what you’re describing. Both can be used but that’s really finish carpentry.
One reason I can think of why they’re not used during regular carpentry/building a home is the time it takes to setup. It’s much faster to measure, mark, cut vs setting up a CNC equivalent.
No. I'm saying on MacOS, for certain types of development where you need BSD or GNU userland tools not included in MacOS - a package manager for installing such tools like brew is required to make life sane and workable.
Also, there is a law prohibiting senators from trading on insider information, which kinda goes against your whole point.
https://www.congress.gov/112/plaws/publ105/PLAW-112publ105.h...